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PLAGKET PBDTEGTOB AND SKIRT SUPPORTER.

- (Applicatioh al a May 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT l/VILLIAM H. CARR AND JOHN G. l/VOLF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLACKET-PROTECTOR AND SKlRT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,885, dated March14, 1899.

Application filed May 19,1898. Serial No. 681,137. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern: Y

, Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. CARR and JOHN GEORGE lVOLF, citizensof the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements inPlacket-Protectors and Skirt-Supporters, of which thefollowing is aspecification.

By means of this device a dress or skirt may be held closed and in placerelatively to the waist or body portion of the garment; and theinvention consists in the novel features of construction set forth inthe following specification and claim, and illustrated in the anneXeddrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the placketholder.Fig. 2 is'a side elevation of Fig. 1, partly in section. Fig. 3 is aplan view of Fig. 1, partly in section. Fig. 4 shows the placket-holderopen. Figs. 5 and 6 show a modification.

The members 1 and 2 are shown pivoted or jointed together at their lowerends at 3. The two members can be suitably spaced, as by a washer 4,Fig. 2, at the pivot or joint 3. The inner or forward member 2 is formedor provided with a keeper 5, having a slot or eye 6, adapted for thereception of a stud or look 7 on the other member. When the stud 7 ispassed or secured in slot 6, the holder is closed. The keeper 5 is shownhook-shaped or projecting forward from the upper part or end of member2. Such keeper or its forwardlyprojecting part has a stud 8. The belt orwaistband 9 is shown adapted for the en gagement of stud 8. Akeyhole-slot 1O 11 in said belt or in a plate or attachment 12, securedto the belt, enables the stud 8 to be readily engaged to 'orfreed fromthe belt.

The belt or band 9 being secured to or clasped about the waist and theplacket-closer 1 2 being on a dress or skirt, the skirt can be suitablyclosed and held up to the waist. The

waistband of the skirt being clasped over or about belt 9 conceals thelatter. At the same time the members 1 and 2 can be readily opened ortheir interlocking engagement at 7 freed and also disconnected from thebelt or waistband 9.

A hook 14 is shown detachably secured in suitable way to the upper partof the placketproteetor; but this hook can be omitted. It is, however,of service -'as, for example, to engage an outer or exposed belt. Theslot, as seen at 11 in Figs. 5 and 6, can have a depression or seat 15,which when stud 8 is placed therein will prevent lateral movement oraccidental sliding or derangement of the placket-closer. In Fig. 5 theslot 11 is shown at the right out clear through the projecting portionof plate 12, so that the stud 8 can be slid in and out at the right-handend of slot 11.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' A placket-protector and skirt-supporter, comprising two memberspivotally connected together at their lower ends, one of said membersbeing provided at its upper end with an inwardly-projecting stud, and aslot formed laterally in the edge of the upper portion of the othermember and adapted to receive and retain said stud, the upper end ofsaid last mentioned member being bent downward to form a hook andprovided with aheaded stud, in combination with a belt havingahorizontal keyhole-slot arranged to engage said headed stud,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

WM. H. CARR. J. G. WOLF.

Witnesses:

W. O. HAUFF,

F. KASTENHUBER.

